Whaling is an ancient practice and for a long period of time, indigenous communities have been hunting this huge marine mammal for food and other resources. However, somewhere around the 20th century, wasteful overhunting caused numerous whale species to come very close to extinction. Much of the damage inflicted on […]
Recently, veteran lobster diver Michael Packard went into the waters at Cape Cod for his second dive that day. His vessel, the ‘Ja’n J’ was off the Herring Cove Beach, surrounded by a fleet of boats catching striped bass. The licensed lobster divers pluck lobsters off the sandy bottom and […]
According to the Sea Life Trust, two beluga whales have been successfully re-homed in a new sea sanctuary after 10 years of being out of the ocean. The whales named Little Grey and Little White have been kept in captivity for most of their lives and have spent almost a […]
SeaWorld will no longer allow trainers to ride the noses and backs of dolphins. The company stated this in a filing with federal regulators to avoid confrontation with animal rights groups at their annual shareholder meeting. But, the PETA, which pushed for this change as part of their campaign against […]